Tim Gao

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol 19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Great to speak about using print and digital archives in teaching, on the Victorian Pedagogies panel with @timgao.bsky.social and @harbottlestores.bsky.social at @bavs-uk.bsky.social PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon

Also had sneaky peek at the Tales of Weird collection at Oxford's Blackwells!

YouTube video by University of Bristol Why study BA English at the University of Bristol?

Lovely to see this new video of my colleagues & students @bristolunienglish.bsky.social advocating for our programme and for the subject more broadly. Studying English Literature can help our students think & read more critically - essential at the moment!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=avkW...

Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong...

‘This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm.’

Tom Crewe reads Ocean Vuong’s second novel, ‘The Emperor of Gladness’:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The abstract for Dr Ashley's article: 'Many neurodivergent people are also trans, and lived‐experience narratives, creative practices, and research outputs have storied this intersection in powerful and capacious ways. Yet, in the face of increased antitrans hostility across the globe that relies on the mobilization of incoherent pseudologics, neurodivergent and trans persons are mutually imbricated, and in violent ways. This essay invites coalition among trans studies, critical neurodiversity studies, disability justice, and the literary health humanities to consider the effects of these violences and to think through the possibilities of choreographing shared potentials through nonnormative cocreation.'

A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

Student Support Champion Project Manager believes academics should stop imparting knowledge derived from scholarship

"This is an interesting connection"

Hannah Rose Woods · Tactile Dreams The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to...

‘Mass urban living brought new sensory pleasures but also required distinctively modern subjectivities articulated through ideas about personal space, autonomy and consent.’

Hannah Rose Woods on a history of the sense of touch in Victorian Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital, 2019)

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There’s a video game where you get to do this

A. is a brilliant student and really deserves to be able to finish their degree. If you can donate at all, even just a small amount then it would mean such a great deal: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-a-gra...

"2 hours of bite-sized"

This is honestly not what I thought this novel would be!

It shouldn’t by default! But I’d ask in case they mix bouillon powder in theirs.

I miss chicken salt